There wasn’t much for the officers to discuss at the league meeting, as there were no rule changes and the house did not go up on lineage. I was given the floor after the officers were finished, during which I mentioned the Brockton Bowling Association’s Facebook page, and also stated my wish that a couple of teams from the league enter this season’s championship tournament, which will be our 50th annual tournament (and why I hoped my league will support the association).
John stated his desire to mix it up a little and bowl with different people, but, later in the evening, I found out it was just John and not also Eileen that wanted to do so, so I’m going to try to stay with the same base team. Carl said one of his co-workers may be interested in joining, and said co-worker may be our fifth bowler.
As for the no-tap tournament, a bad 166 first game pretty much killed my chances of cashing, but I used the other two games to work on some stuff, and I bowled rather decently, with games of 223 and 244 and most of the strikes being of the natural variety. There were also conversions of the 3-6-7-10 and the 2-4-10 thrown in there, which Eileen particularly enjoyed. I wound up using the Tropical Breeze on the left lane and the Fast on the right lane; the difference was that the left lane was hooking a lot more, so I thought the Breeze would tame down the back-end more.
The night belonged to our league president, Jim Blyth, however: he had two no-tap 300 games and was really just one shot away from throwing a perfect no-tap 900 series (an 8-10 split in the second game ruined it). His “partner in crime,” Keith Kaestner, had a no-tap 300 game himself, and I was told Liz DiBennedetto was doing well, also, so, with only four places cashing, it didn’t look good for me.
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